Description: Crew of drilling rig from Louisiana in residence in Boston Harbor to create sewage tunnel through bedrock. They discuss living in close quarters and eating Creole cooking.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/12/1988
Description: Maritime explorer Barry Clifford applies for permit for underwater recovery of wooden chests thrown into harbor in Boston Tea Party. Illustrations of Colonial protesters dumping tea. taxation.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/27/1988
Description: George Bush tours Boston Harbor, purporting to be guardian of the environment, and criticizes Dukakis' lack of early attention to the polluted conditions.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1988
Description: Children from Charlestown learn to sail on Boston Harbor. boats.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/29/1988
Description: EPA issues findings on contaminated seafood from Boston Harbor and Quincy Bay. Diseased fish and shellfish include clams, lobsters, flounder with viruses, tumors and PCBs. Rep. Brian Donnelly.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1988
Description: Reps. Susan Tucker and Mary Jeanette Murray take MWRA tour of Boston Harbor on Envirolab boat that measures pollution and examines marine life.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/01/1988
Description: Michael Dukakis, James Hoyte, Paul Levy, Ray Flynn, Michael Deland mark official start of Boston Harbor cleanup. Dukakis shovels inaugural dirt at Deer Island groundbreaking and rides on bow of Metro Police boat.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1988
Description: Lawsuit against state for failure to clean up harbor pollution is closed because of good faith plans to improve sewage treatment. MWRA. James Hoyte, Paul Levy, Michael Deland.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/13/1988
Description: World's longest waste tunnel to be built under Boston Harbor to carry treated sewage nine miles out to sea. Construction rig in water. Traffic inside Sumner Tunnel. Panorama of waterfront buildings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/01/1988
Description: History of Boston Harbor cleanup. Deer Island sewage treatment plant. Dead fish, clam flats, flushing toilet, rinsing paint brush, oily surface of water. Paul Levy, William Golden. Harbor on clear day with skyline and with dramatic clouds at sunset.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/18/1988